Continuity mistake: In the scene where Star 41 is called to the first crash site, it has mini guns and rockets, but when it gets to the site it has seats for people. (00:50:20 - 01:02:00)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Plot summary
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard, Eric Bana, Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner
The film takes place during October 1993 when the U.S. sent a special forces team into Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and aid to the starving people. Using Black Hawk helicopters to insert the soldiers onto the ground, an unprecedented attack by Somalian forces brings down two of the helicopters. From there, the U.S. soldiers must struggle to regain their advantage while enduring heavy gunfire and losses. A true glimpse into the mission that went horribly wrong for many reasons.
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Pilla: Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us!
McKnight: Well shoot back!
Trivia: According to veterans of the actual event, when the Rangers got the go-ahead for the mission and were getting their gear ready, "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N Roses was playing on the base's loudspeakers. There were some half-serious comments among the men about the appropriateness of this song. However, the film's producers failed to secure the rights to use "Welcome to the Jungle," so they substituted Faith No More's "Falling to Pieces"--which is perhaps thematically in line with what happened on the raid. (00:27:28)
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Answer: The answer to this question is quite simple. Whenever any book is put on to the screen things must be glorified in order to catch the eye of a film goer. In movies like this one, heroes, brave men, and down right bad ass characters are what people need to see. If the movie was just like the book, there would be just a whole bunch of equally important characters, which is something very rarely seen in movies. So in short they made sgt Eversmann a main character simply because the movie needed one.
That makes sense but does anyone know why Eversmann was the specific soldier chosen as the focus for the movie?